In 1918, the world seems on the verge of apocalypse. Americans roam the streets
in gauze masks to ward off the deadly Spanish influenza, and the government ship
s young men to the front lines of a brutal war, creating an atmosphere of fear a
nd confusion. Sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches as desperate mourners
flock to s‚ances and spirit photographers for comfort, but she herself has never
believed in ghosts. At her bleakest moment, however, she's forced to rethink he
r entire way of looking at life and death, for her first love-a boy who died in
battle-returns in spirit form. But what does he want from her?
Featuring haunti
ng archival early-20th-century photographs, this is a tense, romantic story set
in a past that is eerily like our own time.
